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Barris, Theodore.
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Stalag Luft III.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
Prisoners of war -- Canada -- Biography.
Prisoners of war -- Germany -- Biography.
Prisoner-of-war escapes -- Poland -- Żagań.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Canadian.
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Barris, Theodore.
Stalag Luft III.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
Prisoners of war -- Canada -- Biography.
Prisoners of war -- Germany -- Biography.
Prisoner-of-war escapes -- Poland -- Żagań.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Canadian.
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The
great
escape
: a
Canadian
story
/ Ted Barris.
by
Barris, Theodore.
Thomas Allen Publishers, 2013.
Call #:
940.547243 B276g
Subjects
Stalag Luft III.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
Prisoners of war -- Canada -- Biography.
Prisoners of war -- Germany -- Biography.
Prisoner-of-war escapes -- Poland -- Żagań.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives,
Canadian
.
ISBN:
9781771022729 (hc.)
1771022728 (hc.)
Description:
xv, 288 p. : ill., map.
Notes:
Map on endpapers.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"On the night of March 24, 1944, eighty Commonwealth airmen crawled through a 336-foot-long tunnel and slipped into the darkness of a pine forest beyond the wire of Stalag Luft III, a German prisoner-of-war compound near Sagan, Poland. The event became known as The
Great
Escape
. The intricate breakout, more than a year in the making, involved as many as 2,000 POWs, extraordinary co-ordination and a battle of wits inconceivable for the time. Within a few days of the
escape
, however, all but three of the escapees were recaptured; subsequently, on specific orders from Adolf Hitler, fifty were murdered, cremated and buried in a remote corner of the prison compound. What most people and even some of the veterans themselves don't readily acknowledge is that The
Great
Escape
was in many ways a "made-in-Canada"
escape
. Many of the principal planners, task leaders and key players, as well as some of those who actually got away that night were
Canadian
airmen--trained in Canada, serving in RCAF bomber and fighter squadrons, shot down over Europe, imprisoned at Stalag Luft III, and ultimately participants in the actual
Great
Escape
"--Provided by publisher.
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